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There are so many easy ways for me to do good deeds. Today’s good deed was a simple phone call.
Today’s good deed: CALL SOMEONE AND TELL HER YOU’RE THINKING ABOUT HER
“I’ve been thinking about you off and on all day!”
Those should have been the words that came out of my mouth. Instead, they came out of hers.
My Godmother is 88 years old. Old. What an odd word to use to talk about her.
It’s true she uses phrases like, “But yet and still …” and “By jingo!” like a person from a former time. And she refers to credit cards as “charge plates.” But she doesn’t seem old to me.
Her hair has long been silver, and she still uses a Polaroid camera and wonders, “Why in the devil don’t they make film for it like they used to?” But “old?”
She comes from a time where you respect your elders and you don’t talk on the phone for too long and you make corn bread by hand on the “stovetop.” And she still uses a push mower to cut her grass. But yet and still … she doesn’t seem old to me.
My Godmother has more spirit, more spunk and more life than most people I know. And she certainly doesn’t laugh like an old woman. She’s always, “rippin’ and runnin’,” and going to “To Do’s.” Next weekend is no exception. The Tennessee Ball will be honored with her presence.
She’s my wonderful, force to be reckoned with, God-fearing, God-loving, Godmother. Calling her was my good deed for the day. Her picking up the phone was the good deed she did for me.
Photo (Flickr CC) by CGP Grey
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